[Neworleans-pm] Windows & .Net
David B. John
djohn at archdiocese-no.org
Mon Jun 11 05:23:51 PDT 2012
On Jun 8, 2012, at 5:37 PM, John Souvestre wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I’d like to post a question.
>
> The other day I wanted to call a .Net method from Perl (Strawberry Perl on Windows 7). I didn’t see an easy way. I understand that Active State has out an interface but it is part of their package.
>
> I have used the Win32 and Win32::API modules for various misc things. I understand that Win32::OLE does well for OLE interfacing. I’m surprised that there isn’t a generic .Net module too.
>
> Am I silly to be using Strawberry instead of Active State? About half of what I do is for Windows (more, recently) and the other half for Linux. I prefer the command line interface as I have an editor I’m comfortable with.
>
> I did try Active State a few years ago when I was just starting with Perl. I don’t believe that you could use CPAN modules then, only theirs. But I understand that they have opened that up.
>
> John
>
Never used strawberry perl before. Have used Active State, it's not that bad. When I did they used ppm for modules. I never had a problem finding the packages I needed. As much as it pains me to say it, what about wrapping the .net method in a helper vb script and then calling that from perl with system, as Joey suggested, or backticks, etc?
DJ
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